How to make a Mario Brothers Birthday Cake

This week we celebrated Tom's 5th Birthday.  We celebrated with a Mario Brothers Cake.

Make a cake, buy a pre-made sponge, the option is yours.

I did a bit of both.

I used:

1 Pre-made Sponge

1 Vanilla Cake Packet Mix

 2 tubs of Vanilla Frosting

Food Colouring

A Skewer

Chocolate Icing Pen

We already had a Mario Brothers Figurine, so just gave it a bit of a clean.

Method:

I made the packet mix cake first.  The reason I did this was because I wanted to make a specific shaped cake to suit the top of the mushroom.  I used a steamed pudding tin.  However stuck to the original baking instructions.

Then I allowed it to cool.

In the mean time I separated the frosting into different bowls and coloured accordingly.

The pre-made sponge had two layers.  I iced one layer in green to represent grass.

Then using the lid of the frosting container, I cut two circles out of the second layer.

I stacked these, one on top of the other with a little frosting in between.  Then placed them on the cake in position.  I completely covered them in white frosting.

When the cake I baked had cooled I placed it onto the stem of the mushroom.  I did at this point put a skewer through the layers of the mushroom to ensure they wouldn't fall apart or slide off.

I then covered the top of the mushroom with red icing.  Once it had set I added the white dots.

I placed the figurine on the base along with five candles.

Note: I added eyes to the mushroom using the chocolate icing pen. 

A Mario Brother Birthday Cake was a huge hit for my little 5 year old.

Cheers

Mandy